The Wheel of Time Cast on What’s in Store for Their Characters in Season 3

The Wheel of Time season three is nearly here—and the first episode kicks off with a massive, thrilling magic battle scene. (You can watch it here through the end of today, otherwise you’ll have to wait until the premiere.) Ahead of the Robert Jordan adaptation’s return to Prime Video, io9 got a chance to talk with multiple cast members, starting with Sophie Okonedo. Her character, Aes Sedai leader Siuan Sanche, is dead-center in that huge, season-opening brawl. “I was very nervous to do that scene, because it’s slightly out of my comfort zone,” Okonedo recalled of filming the sequence. “I haven’t done much stuff like that. So I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to pull it off. But actually it was really great. I was very held through the whole sequence with the other actors and by Ciaran [Donnelly, the episode’s director] and the stunt people. So you felt like you could still do your acting within this huge, choreographed set piece. Hopefully you can see what’s going on with Siuan ... Read full article.